Bugs and Suggestions

28-Nov-04 9:13

RajMVP[^] posted 5 "code snippets". could some Editor have a look at this? Thanks Smile | :)

P.S. CP is running smoothly. So you see we don#t *always* complain Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: low quality articles

Chris Maunder29-Nov-04 4:32

Re: separate VB6 from .Net

29-Nov-04 4:32

Thanks. The article has been removed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Re: low quality articles

Nish Nishant29-Nov-04 5:59

Nish Nishant

29-Nov-04 5:59

Chris Maunder wrote:
Thanks. The article has been removed.

Actually I had deleted 4 others and had moved the 5th one (the best of the lot) to purgatory. But looks like even the 5th one wasn't good enough, eh? Smile | :)

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separate VB6 from .Net

Pablo.ar25-Nov-04 17:55

Pablo.ar

25-Nov-04 17:55

How much would it cost you guys, to create a different department for each of those two dev env's? I mean, they are not quite the same, neither are they alike... so what's the point on keeping them together?
A simple lightning-fast solution would be that on the 'new thread' page, there could be a couple of 'options' for each of 'previous to .Net' and '.Net itself', maybe defaulted to '.Net itself', and users could specify it on the 'thread's title'... it'd make the life of those of us who are here just to help much much easier...
Thanks for listening to me.
Pablo.ar

Chris Maunder28-Nov-04 1:41

A economical/technical question (+)

28-Nov-04 1:41

We're actually trying to avoid VB6 content, and have the VB/VB.NET combination in the forums mainly to cater to those having issues moving from VB6 to VB.NET.

If it turns out there's a pressing need for VB6 support forums and even VB6 article sections then we'll do it, but we'd prefer to leave VB6 to the many sites who have covered this topic sufficiently and move forward with VB.NET

cheers,
Chris Maunder

peterchen25-Nov-04 1:33

Re: A economical/technical question (+)

25-Nov-04 1:33

Chris,
Please _think_ about the following:
How many ad impressions would you loose when you disable ad cycling?

Occasional timeouts when following a link are bearable, but getting thrown out IN THE MIDDLE OF NOTHING is becoming so annoying I consider to go cold turkey on CP^*. It makes me angry. I am shouting at the site, I am shouting at you. I am thinking about enabling the ad filter. It is that ugly.

I understand that you have no immediate solution. But we DO need fixes and workarounds for the time being. Currently, when I'm thrown out, I can't hit refresh, I can't hit "back". Even clicking "Stop" just after the page did load correctly does not help.

A concerned reader.

Technical Part:

I get FetchAdd errors very frequently if I
1. have a window open for a while, maybe in background
2. Click on a message board link (message veiw set to

The error is: URL "http://www.codeproject.com/info/error500.asp?500;http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/fetchAd.asp", and HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error.

It seems more prominent through a "long" wire (slower connection, additional proxy).

Update: ran without problems through the entire evening, from my home connection. That's weird.

*) maybe this *does* solve the server load problem Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Chris Maunder26-Nov-04 4:16

Re: A economical/technical question (+)

26-Nov-04 4:16

Hey Peter,

I'm spending the morning trying to coax the system into spitting out an error from the ad page. If it happens, and it hijacks the entire page, the ad cycling is gone until I can find a solution.

This frustrates me as much as everyone else.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

peterchen26-Nov-04 12:25

Re: A economical/technical question (+)

26-Nov-04 12:25

I've been running trouble free throughout the entire day. Yet, yesterday was hell, and I'm afraid it will reoccur.

When it happens again, is there any information that might help you?

I know quite well how frustrating it is if you can't reproduce a problem. I'm still optimistic that it's simple once you get the right piece of information.

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Chris Maunder28-Nov-04 1:43

28-Nov-04 1:43

The problem simply caused by heavy load. I think things have sorted themselves out now, but thanks for the offer (and your patience)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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PJ Arends24-Nov-04 10:30

PJ Arends

24-Nov-04 10:30

This is just a minor suggestion, but would it be possible to fix the ad server so it does not continually throw out those annoying 500 errors.

Thanks.

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Member 9624-Nov-04 12:31

Member 96

24-Nov-04 12:31

I was just going to re-suggest that very thing.
In fact I suggested it about two weeks ago and got voted down here for some inexplicable reason, maybe it was my "tone".;)

DavidNohejl24-Nov-04 13:18

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24-Nov-04 13:18

John Cardinal wrote:
I suggested it about two weeks ago and got voted down here for some inexplicable reason

Maybe server itself voted you down. These beasts are unpredictible these days Big Grin | :-D

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Chris Maunder25-Nov-04 6:38

25-Nov-04 6:38

I've got error checking all over the place, custom error pages, exception handling, even on error resume next's splattered liberally.

Let me know if the problem persists. It's one of those cases where what you would expect to be happening isn't what's actually happening. It's frustrating for everyone.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Roger Wright26-Nov-04 2:41

Roger Wright

26-Nov-04 2:41

Chris Maunder wrote:
Let me know if the problem persists.

Huh? It's been going on sporadically for many weeks, perhaps months - I haven't been keeping track. I have been trying to correlate it to something but haven't had much success. It happens with equal frequency no matter what conditions I can detect prevail. I thought at first it was a load problem, but it doesn't matter whether there are 1600 or 6000 users connected. I check to see if my connection is poor, but other very busy sites respond without error. I haven't yet tried using tracert again, as we all did before when the NSP was having routing problems, but I will and if there's a pattern I'll pass it on. Predictably, the site is working perfectly this morning so it would be an exercise in futility today. Yesterday, though, it took so many tries to post a single reply that I gave up and got something productive accomplished instead. Hmmmm... Maybe I'm on to something here... D'Oh! | :doh:

It must be rather frustrating for you, like spending all day tuning a car to running perfection only to find that it won't start in the morning. Sigh | :sigh:

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Chris Maunder26-Nov-04 4:05

26-Nov-04 4:05

I made some changes yesterday so if the ads die they (hopefully) won't take out the page they are in. If this change doesn't help then it's back to the drawing board

Roger Wright wrote:
It must be rather frustrating for you, like spending all day tuning a car to running perfection only to find that it won't start in the morning.

Pretty much Frown | :(

cheers,
Chris Maunder

PJ Arends26-Nov-04 13:54

PJ Arends

26-Nov-04 13:54

Whatever you did seems to have helped eliminate the errors from showing up on this end. Makes browsing CP a much better experience than it has been the last while.

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Message voting and topic colouring

PJ Arends26-Nov-04 23:32

PJ Arends

26-Nov-04 23:32

Chris, I do not know if this will help you any, but I just had a lounge page come up where the left side banner ad was missing. In it's place was IE's default "Cannot find server or DNS error" page.

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benjymous23-Nov-04 22:01

benjymous

23-Nov-04 22:01

There seems to be something drastically wrong with the topic colouring.. it appears to be doing something like this:

if( message.votes > 0 )
  if( message.averagevote == 5 )
    message.colour = red
  else
    message.colour = grey
  endif
endif

whereas I'd expect something like

if( message.votes > 0 )
  if( message.averagevote > 3.5 )
    message.colour = red
  else if( message.averagevote < 1.5 )
    message.colour = grey
  else
    message.colour = black
  endif
endif

or something to that effect

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Jon Sagara24-Nov-04 11:30

Jon Sagara

24-Nov-04 11:30

FAQ #6[^] describes how voting works.

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Michael Dunn24-Nov-04 13:01

Michael Dunn

24-Nov-04 13:01

Just curious, where is the link to /script/comments/faq.asp? I could only find a link to /info/faq.asp in the top menu bar (Help!->General FAQ).

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Jon Sagara24-Nov-04 13:21

Jon Sagara

24-Nov-04 13:21

At the top of this forum "control", directly to the left of the "noise level" drop down list.

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benjymous24-Nov-04 21:50

benjymous

24-Nov-04 21:50

Ahh, I see - I hadn't noticed that I'd managed to accidentially change the noise level (so everything below 4.5 was becoming greyed)

d'oh!

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Prakash Nadar23-Nov-04 5:24

Prakash Nadar

23-Nov-04 5:24

http://www.codeproject.com/webservices/blog.aspx?id=497107

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little HTML (?) problem

peterchen22-Nov-04 23:28